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So that Black Freedmen can have the right to vote.But not women in this time.

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Which was not a way the Southern states disenfranchised blacks?

"Separate but equal" segregation. Nullifying the Fifteenth Amendment. Instituting sharecropping systems.


What was the 3 civil war amendments?

Amendment 13, 14, and 15 . 13th Amendment abolished Slavery 14th Amendment broad language going well beyond the slave issue: it declared that no states shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." 15th Amendment gave former male slaves and their descendants a constitutional right to vote


Who wrote the 13th 14th and 15th amendment?

No one person. It was the US Congress that proposed it on February 26th 1879. The Fifteenth Amendment was the result of a gradual development of the idea of racial equality in the matter of electoral voting rights.Most states had ratified it by 1880.The last state to adopt and ratify it was Tennessee, in 1997.See 'Related Links' below for more information


Which amendments helped African Americans after the civil war?

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments were written to help African Americans. They are called the Civil War Amendments since they were added after the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment was added in 1865. It ended slavery and prevents the nation from allowing slavery again at any time. The Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 is an important amendment because it has helped protect civil rights for all Americans. It says that all people who are born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. The Fifteenth Amendment was added in 1870. It gave African Americans the right to vote. The government cannot prevent people from voting because of their race or color.


The Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are known as?

The thirteenth through fifteenth amendments are referred to as Reconstruction Amendments. These amendments came about after the Civil War. They were designed to help reconstruct the south after the war.

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Which amendment Prohibits the government from denying a person right to vote on the basis of race?

The fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.


What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution?

The purpose of the 15th Amendment was to stop the states from denying anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person had once been a slave.


What is a sentence with the words fifteenth amendment in it?

The fifteenth Amendment is in the history book


Is fifteenth capitalized?

no, unless its the Fifteenth Amendment.


What made the election of hundreds of African American leaders to local state and Congressional offices possible during the 1870s?

The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment


What does the fifthteen amendment guarantee?

What does the fifteenth amendment guarantee


What year was the Fifteenth Amendment passed in?

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed on February 3, 1870.


What amendment to the US constitution provided for the right to vote regardless of race?

The fifteenth amendment of the Declaration of Independence declared that people of color had the right to vote.


The Thirteenth Amendment The Thirteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment What was the main purpose of these three amendments?

the thirteenth amendment freed all the slaves, the fourteenth amendment recognized all black and white men as citizens, and the fifteenth amendment gave ALL MEN the right to vote (women didn't get the right to vote until the nineteenth amendment) *In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was followed by the 14th Amendment in 1866, which defined for the first time the definition of American citizenship. The Fifteenth Amendment passed by Congress in 1870 stated that no part of the federal government was to discriminate any citizen on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."


What is taken from your because of the fifteenth amendment?

Nothing!


What does the fifteenth amendment do for America?

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When did the 15 amendment pass?

The fifteenth amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870.